Mr Allison’s garden also includes a temporary bus stop, pot people and a beer garden designed like a bus stop. Lothian Bus company also gave supplies for his makeshift garden such as old bus stop signs, posters and timetables.

The only break from the bus theme is a police box he built and equipped as a Tardis, complete with a K9 and a BBC cameraman.

His efforts have made John a minor celebrity in his own community.

Jack Martin, 80, a retired taxidriver and neighbour said: “I think it is great. I think it is smashing. Lots of people come to see it, they come in with their kids to see his garden. It’s wonderful.

“He helps everybody out. He helps all the neighbours with anything. You will not get many like that. That wall he painted himself and he did the roof himself. He wasn’t paying for someone to do it.”

The real Edinburgh trams continue to be a source of controversy as a result of massive cost overruns and delays that are the now the subject of a public inquiry.

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